Web builder & frontend developer

Just Another Cluster #2

21 November 2015

It's that time of the week again, where I post interesting links / articles / tools and then comment upon them. This is issue number #2. If you haven't read the first one, I suggest you do.
As always, if you find any interesting tools or articles that I might have missed, let me know in the comments below and I'll share them in the next weekly cluster.

Microsoft Project Oxford Emotion APIs
This one is actually really cool. Someone at Microsoft decided one day, that it's about time to find out what their customers actually feel when buying Microsoft products. This set of APIs allows anyone to detect what emotion is present in a photo. How cool is that!?

Koding's Global Virtual Hackathon 2015
Between December 12th and 13th Koding is hosting the worlds largest virtual hackathon. Last year there were around 60k participants, this year that number will be left in the dust. Did I mention, the grand prize is 100k? Yeah, that too.

Dark matter
No, we're not talking about the hypothetical kind of matter that cannot be seen with telescopes but accounts for most of the matter in the universe, we're talking about the dark matter developers that don't read a lot of blogs, they never write blogs, they don't go to user groups, they don't tweet or facebook, and you don't often see them at large conferences. Where are these dark matter developers online?

Developer’s Guide to Open Source Licenses
You're starting a new project and you want it to be open source, but you're not sure about the kind of license to choose. Worry not, this handy guide will help you in your quest for open source awesomeness.

How to work with SVG text
Steven Bradley explains why working with SVG text is the best of both worlds. On one hand it’s rendered like other graphic elements and on the other hand it's packaged as XML character data, which means it’s real text.

The art of debugging
In this article, Remy Sharp explains why it's crucial to learn every tool that's available to use, use it as you need it.